Crypto Rundown: The McRib Is Back & The Government Reopens?! What Does This Do for Crypto?!
CRYPTO 101
Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Tevo and Brian kick off the episode celebrating the potential end of the U.S. government shutdown and a renewed sense of market optimism. They highlight institutional confidence with major Bitcoin and Ethereum buys, new staking ETF guidance, and upcoming products like the XRP ETF and Coinbase launchpads. Amid humor and community chatter, the hosts track how cultural signals—from the McRib’s return to prediction market growth—reflect bullish energy across crypto. The episode closes with gratitude for veterans and excitement for year-end momentum.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:53 — Market reaction to shutdown relief; Bitcoin and Ethereum tick up as sentiment improves.
05:51 — Fear & Greed Index rises; Brian predicts sideways trading before a year-end Santa rally.
07:59 — Technical review: Bitcoin holds key $100K support; discussion of Fed data delays and CPI reports.
10:17 — Trump’s proposed $2,000 “tariff dividend” tweet analyzed with Scott Besson’s clarifications.
12:45 — IRS issues new staking guidance for crypto ETFs; Brian explains long-term adoption impact.
13:43 — Staking ETFs and dividend fund implications for Ethereum and Solana.
15:57 — The McRib returns; Tevo calls it a bullish market signal and celebrates “boots-on-the-ground” reporting.
17:20 — MicroStrategy and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive buy more Bitcoin; Tom Lee’s BMNR increases ETH holdings.
26:01 — Fund manager performance stats show only 22% beating the market, suggesting a Q4 rally setup.
28:38 — ETF news: Canary Capital working on XRP ETF; Brian praises the XRP Army’s resilience.
31:09 — Coinbase, Monad, and OpenServe announce new AI-driven token launchpads on Base.
34:22 — Zcash correction after massive rally; market caution and Robinhood–Jupiter partnership discussed.
39:02 — PrizePicks partners with Polymarket; prediction markets seen as the next phase of decentralized wagering.
47:30 — Moonbirds launch new merch; NFT brands like Rec Drinks and Pudgy Penguins expand into retail.
51:33 — Community Q&A: Josh asks about HBAR; hosts discuss long-term potential and volatility.
54:40 — Closing remarks: salute to veterans, preview of Friday’s episode with Brendan, and sign-off.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, welcome back to the Crypto 101 podcast presented by Gemini, your bridge to the future of money. |
| 0:15.2 | It is another rundown. And I am joined by our friend Brian. Brian, welcome back to the show. We had you on Friday. |
| 0:24.1 | And then we had to bring you back. Brendan's doing some research. We're going to get him going |
| 0:27.8 | on Friday at this next Friday at 2 p.m. I put a post in the YouTube to let everybody know our |
| 0:36.0 | schedule this week. So we're here today right now. Thank you all for joining us. And we're going to be back with Brendan on Friday and do a deep dive into technical analysis. But Brian stepped up and stepped in so we get an episode out. Brian, welcome back. How was your weekend? Shout out to Debra with the go hens in the chat because the hens won the homecoming game. |
| 0:55.3 | But how are you, my friend? |
| 0:57.2 | Oh, I'm doing great, man. |
| 0:58.4 | Feeling cozy like you. |
| 0:59.8 | We got a little bit of a cold front coming through the United States. |
| 1:02.4 | But I love doing these shows, man. |
| 1:04.6 | Whenever you hit me up to jump on the rundown, I can't, I'll never say no to be completely honest with you. |
| 1:10.5 | I love the chat. I to be completely honest with you. I love, I love the chat. |
| 1:12.3 | I love chatting it up with you and there's always something to talk about in this market. Yeah, I couldn't agree more. We've got a good thing going here. It's always fun, whether it's, you know, we got the whole team or it's just Brennan or you or with Joe and everybody. these are really fun and definitely we appreciate everybody in the chat and the community |
| 1:29.5 | for uh yeah for all we and everybody it's a these are really fun and definitely we appreciate everybody uh in the chat |
| 1:28.7 | in the community um for uh yeah for always jumping in and all that stuff it's been it's been |
| 1:33.4 | really fun to kind of build this show but over the weekend there's been some good news um and |
| 1:38.6 | the market has been ticking up a little bit i guess we could start with the fact that the government shutdown. |
| 1:46.0 | We can kind of bring that up first. I'm working on some technical things, making sure the |
| 1:51.2 | streams live, Brian. So I'm going to pull this up and then hand it off to you. Yeah, I mean, |
| 1:55.9 | we got good news. We talked about this on Friday. And kudos to you TiVo. We were looking at the date range. I think it was this week at the end of this week that there could be relief from this possible government shutdown. And sure enough, really positive moves here where it looks like people are going to probably be able to get on a plane to enjoy |
| 2:18.2 | their loved ones for Thanksgiving. And the market really liked it yesterday in particular, |
| 2:23.7 | or really going into Sunday, whenever this government shutdown started to get buzzed, that |
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